Willravel

I understand what you're saying, but I was speaking relatively. If one were to compare the systems of healthcare between the US and another western power, ours would relatively be very capitalist. Yes, it's regulated, but it's far less regulated than systems that seem to be doing much, much better. France is so regulated it's basically socialist, but it's considered by not only the WHO, but it's almost universally recognized as the best health care system on the planet (unless you're a millionaire, in which case the US does just fine).

Speaking briefly on the subject of regulation, I've been speaking with a friend of mine who's father has been a doctor for decades and has been involved not only in medicine but administration. His complaints about the government regulation were seemingly unlimited. I asked him to show his father Sicko, but he refused calling it socialist propaganda. Heh. While the current government regulation of the medical industry may not be ultimately beneficial, it's hardly responsible for all of the problems. The government hardly asks the insurance companies to turn down people for life saving surgeries. The government doesn't make the private health care community lobby and bribe, though accepting the bribes certainly doesn't help. The government doesn't make the technology extremely expensive. The government doesn't require the drug companies to have thousand percent profit margins.